Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...road that leads to La Paz. The girl, barely able to speak between her clenched teeth, told him that she had waited two weeks after the fracture before coming to seek medical care in Cochabamba. The doctor, his hands working rapidly, removed the moist bandage and, with a professional sweep of the arm, dropped it into a basket...
...would take a surge of 10,000 votes, reaching Hut headquarters in Wichita, Kans., before balloting closes March 2, to sweep Fitzsimmons into the top eight, a spokesman for the classic said yesterday...
Perhaps in recognition of that unhappy fact, Washington has been talking about the Mexico City meeting in rather guarded terms. Notably missing has been any grand verbal sweep of the Yankee sombrero-the rhetorical overkill that, for instance, heralded the southern tour of Kissinger's predecessor William Rogers as the most important visit by any American Secretary of State in more than 40 years. Such hyperbole -which said "everything without doing anything," in the words of one Latin diplomat-has turned many Latin Americans into skeptics about U.S. intentions...
...look closer and the resemblance holds up. Short man with slicked back black hair brushed back on the sides and a neat sweep in front. A very tan face. Lines in his forehead, which is prominent. Very powerful beard, with a short-sleeved shirt that shows a tattoo on his forearm. His eyes, though small and beady, have a powerful gaze. And he smiles like he's got a secret...
Junior Dave Brumwell in the 200-yd. individual medley, freshman Neil Martin in the 200-yd. backstroke, and freshman Ted Fullerton in the 200-yd. breast stroke all handily defeated their Pennsylvania opponents to give the Crimson a clean sweep of the swimming events...